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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Play Ball

I’m really struck by what Alexis wrote in her synopsis of “Martian Child.” Clearly the movie directly links writing to fatherhood, excludes the maternal element, and focuses on an orphaned child, etc. But what really got me, given our last class discussion of umpires and vampires, is that the father-son relationship is first established in […]

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Martian Child

Well, I got ruthlessly made fun of last night, and I blame it completely on this class.  But I couldn’t help it!  I went to see Martian Child, the new movie out with John Cusack, last night with some friends, and I had to borrow a pen and write on the back of a receipt […]

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Harry and Alchemy

Ok, fellow magical thinkers, I wrote to a friend of mine, Glyn Parry who is a well-known Renaissance Historian at a university in New Zealand– you know one of those scholars who does official history — and an expert on Alchemy. I told him about some of the things we’ve been reading and talking […]

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

And on our way back from Poland, we should stop in NYC.

Because a production of Shelley’s Frankenstein just debuted on Broadway!
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/theater/reviews/02fran.html?ex=1351742400&en=4154a117fdfd1d65&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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